A697 crash in the Scottish Borders on 29 August 1995 at 11:50 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the A697 in the Scottish Borders at 11:50 on Tuesday 29 August 1995. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Aug 1995
- Tuesday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.72361, longitude -2.68215, in the TD2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1995950882995
- Council area
- Scottish Borders
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 697
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 12 November 2003
At the same spotRef 2003950009422
Serious
Car crash on the A97 in the Scottish Borders, 20 May 1986
30 m awayRef 198695586G024
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 27 June 2017
35 m awayRef 2017950001634
Slight
Car crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 7 November 1988
41 m awayRef 198895N88G008
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 16 December 1993
51 m awayRef 1993951400493
Serious
Lorry crash on the A697 in the Scottish Borders, 1 July 1985
71 m awayRef 198595785G002
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 1995950882995 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Scottish Borders road accident statistics for 1995.